“She told me, ‘This is definitely your
baby,’ and I can’t argue with that. Great
minds think alike!”
A Little D-Day Humor
Having consolidated two of their home
offices into one, Brooks and Kruger
have been readying the nurser y and are
honing their baby-care skills. “We’ve got
the car-seat thing fi gured out, but I still
have to get my ‘swaddle’ on,” he says.
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Luckily, he knows that hav-
ing his wife of three years by
his side for the journey means
they’ll fi gure it all out. “She’s a
nurturer at heart, and anybody
who knows her knows how
sweet and caring and giving
she is, which shows me the
kind of mom she’s going to be.
I’ve seen her strength through
this whole pregnancy.”
As for his role in the deliver y
room, the actor jokes that he
plans on documenting ever y-
thing. “I like to mess with
Kelly and tell her I’m going to
have a GoPro on a selfi e stick,
and I’ll just put that thing
down there. She’s like, ‘No,
you’re not!’”
Just as Kruger already
knows, this baby will quickly
learn that her daddy likes to
tease. “I’m going to make fun
of her and embarrass her —
that’s just the way it is,” he
says. “I’m definitely going to
pick on her... and her future boyfriends!”
The parents-to-be do have a few name
options already picked out for their
child, but they’re keeping mum for now.
“We kind of want her to be the fi rst one
to hear the name out loud,” he explains.
“Also, it could all change when we fi nal-
ly take a look at her. Who knows?”
In any case, we can’t wait to hear all
about her when she fi nally arrives!
— Amy Helmes
THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL
When the couple
revealed they
were having a
girl, Scott Clifton
(Liam) texted his
on-screen bro
with a question.
“He said, ‘So ...
is there an
arranged
marriage on the
forefront for
[Clif ton’s son]
Ford?’ I said,
‘You’d better
believe it! Just
don’t expect a
dowry!’”